What are events ?
Internet Explorer sends a series of events when it has completed an operation or has updated an element of its interface, for example, when it has finished downloading a page or has changed the text in the status bar. These events are intercepted by ieHelper and sent to mediaCam as a series of bookmarks within the capture.
The events that ieHelper captures.
| Begin navigate | Sent when a navigation operation begins. |
| Begin Download | Sent when a navigation operation is beginning. |
| Download Complete | Sent when a navigation operation finishes, is halted, or fails. Unlike the Navigate Complete event which is fired only when a URL is successfully navigated to, this event is always fired after a navigation starts. |
| Document Complete | Sent when the document has completely loaded. In pages with no frames, this event is sent once after loading is complete. In pages where multiple frames are loaded, this event is sent for each frame where the Begin Download event was sent. In the loading process, the highest level frame (which is not necessarily the top-level frame) sends the final Document Complete event. |
| Status Text Change | Sent when the text in the status bar at the foot of the window is changed. |
| Property Change | Sent when a browser property has changed - e.g. the browser is set into full screen mode. |
| Progress Change | Sent when the progress of a download is updated. This is measured as a percentage of completion. |
| New Window | Sent when a new browser window has been created. - e.g. when a popup window is opened. |
| Quit Browser | Sent when a browser window is closed. |
Event Information you can select to view on various events
| Browser id | The id of the current browser. This can be useful when you have a number of browsers open at once, or a popup window has been opened within a browser. It allows you to identify which window the events are coming from. |
| Event date/time | This is the date and time the event was fired. |
| URL | This is the URL of the file path of the current downloaded page. |
| Time spent on last page | This time is measured from the initial Begin Navigate to the next Begin Navigate of the current page. |
| Navigate time | The navigate time is the delay from the initial Begin Navigate (e.g. a new URL is entered) to the time when the Navigate Complete event is sent. The document is still downloading but at least part of the document has been received from the server, and the viewer for the document within explorer has been created. This isn't exactly the server response time as it includes a small amount of download time of the initial page but is more the response time the observer will see before the page starts its initial download of bitmaps etc. These times can be useful, for example as a measure of response time observed at different times of day. |
| Document load time | This is the time taken for the document to completely load the current page. In pages with no frames, this is sent after loading is complete. In pages where multiple frames are loaded, this is sent for each frame where a Download Begin event has been sent. |
| Document size | This is the size of the current loaded document including its bitmap images. |